Question 1

A magical-seeming ability to attract followers or inspire loyalty

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charisma

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touchstone

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arbiter

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nostalgia

Question 2

A brief often witty saying; a proverb

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aphorism

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maxim

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chagrin

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debacle

Question 3

Bitter long-lasting ill will or resentment

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rancor

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confluence

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largess

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bastion

Question 4

A public declaration of beliefs or principles usually political ones

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manifesto

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ideology

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deluge

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exigency

Question 5

Something left to someone in a will

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bequest

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dictum

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partisan

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fauna

Question 6

Someone who believes that future events are already determined and that humans are powerless to change them

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fatalist

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chicanery

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stricture

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proximity

Question 7

Someone who gives up his or her life in pursuit of a cause especially a religious one

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martyr

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brevity

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paradox

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proletariat

Question 8

An excess

Accepted Answer

plethora

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bequest

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polemic

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debauchery

Question 9

An occupation; a job

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vocation

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apartheid

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proximity

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libel

Question 10

Something handed down from the past; a bequest

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legacy

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turpitude

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denizen

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maverick

Question 11

The state of being sober; seriousness

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sobriety

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pathology

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amenity

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precept

Question 12

Lightness; frivolity; unseriousness

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levity

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archetype

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vicissitude

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magnate

Question 13

A rule to live by; a principle establishing a certain kind of action or behavior; a maxim

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precept

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propriety

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legacy

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neologism

Question 14

A system of social or political ideas

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ideology

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maxim

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covenant

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Capitalism

Question 15

Truthfulness

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veracity

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virtuoso

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enormity

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stagnation

Question 16

A rebirth or revival

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renaissance

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hyperbole

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philanthropy

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dissolution

Question 17

The science of diseases

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pathology

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mandate

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peccadillo

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antipathy

Question 18

A leader of the people but more a rabble rouser

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demagogue

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sedition

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genre

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partisan

Question 19

A forerunner; a signal of

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harbinger

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archetype

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bequest

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attrition

Question 20

A brief summary that captures the meaning of the whole; the perfect example of something; a paradigm ;

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epitome

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hyperbole

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antipathy

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hegemony

Question 21

Briefness

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brevity

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patriarch

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anecdote

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increment

Question 22

Firm dislike; a dislike; opposite of sympathy

Accepted Answer

antipathy

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verisimilitude

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demagogue

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ascendancy

Question 23

Greed; excessive love of riches

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avarice

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vocation

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circumlocution

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deluge

Question 24

A minor offense

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peccadillo

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partisan

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propriety

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increment

Question 25

Scarcity

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paucity

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polemic

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panacea

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mercenary

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